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A54056	Some considerations propounded to the Jewes that they may hear and consider, and their hearts at length may be turned towards that which alone is able to convert them to God, that they may once more become His people, and enter into an everlasting covenant with Him that may not be broken, that so they may abide in His love and covenant of life, and remain His people for ever.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1192; ESTC R14965	6,472	8

of Favour to do them good it shall not be by their Covenant which could never last but was still broken on their parts but by his own everlasting Covenant which he would establish to them Ezek. 16. 60. c. It would therefore diligently be enquired by them What Covenant it is which is called their Covenant vers. 61. And what Covenant it is which is called Gods Covenant vers. 62. That they may withdraw their eyes and hopes from the one from whence their Redemption Recovery and Mercy cannot come towards the other from whence it is to come To which Query for their sakes it is in my heart to return this Answer Answ. Their Covenant is that which they entred into with God the Covenant that their hearts chose to unite with God by and that was to this effect That if God would shew them his Will they would obey it Go thou near said they to Moses and hear all that the Lord our God shall say and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee and we will hear it and do it Deut. 5. 27. Thus they thought but the Lord knew otherwise for O saith the Lord that there were such an heart in them c. vers. 29. and Moses knew otherwise he knew that they would corrupt themselves and that evil would befal them in the latter dayes Deut. 31. 29. But Gods Covenant was the free Covenant he made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob the Covenant of his Grace the Covenant of his free Love whereby he was able to reach them in Egypt upon the cry of the Seed in them in the midst of their Idolatries and to bring them out and do them good notwithstanding their stubbornness and stiff-neckedness even before the other Covenant was made This Covenant of Love was Gods Covenant This is the Covenant God remembred to them in the days of their youth while they were young and tender and not yet grown up to be a people under the other Covenant and this is the Covenant which lasts for ever which is not founded upon their obedience but on God's free Love to them for his own Name sake and for their Fathers sake with whom he freely made it Quest What doth this Covenant contain Answ. putting his Fear in the Heart writing his Laws in the Mind pouring of pure clear Water upon them to wash away the pollutions of their inward parts circumcising the filth of the Heart healing the backsliding Nature by creating of a right Spirit within and keeping of the created Spirit right by the presence of that Spirit which created it See Jer. 31. 31 32. Ezek. 36. 25 c. Hosea 14. 4. This is God's Covenant this is the new Covenant which is to be made with the House of Israel and Judah when God redeems them and they can never be redeemed but by this Covenant but are to remain desolate until the Spirit be poured out from on high upon them Isai. 32. 15. until their Hearts be circumcised to love the Lord their God untill his fear be placed there and they thereby caused to walk in his ways As therefore they receive the Spirit are brought into the fear have the Law written in their minds and become subject thereto so will they tast of this Covenant be brought into Redemption by it and become a glory inwardly and outwardly also upon the Earth Quest What is the way for them to have the fear of God put in their Hearts to have their Hearts circumcised to receive the Spirit and his Laws into their minds and so to come into this Covenant Answ. There is no other way but that to which Moses himself directed them after God had made the other Covenant with them and tryed them long by it together with many Temptations Signs and Wonders both before and after it and seeing by all these they had not had an Heart to perceive nor Eyes to see nor Ears to hear Moses at length directs them to another Covenant the Word whereof would give them Eyes to see and Ears to hear and an Heart to understand Which Covenant was a Covenant besides the former Deut. 29. 1. And was indeed the Covenant concerning Life or Death eternal chap. 30. 15. the other being but a Covenant of their outward state made with them after their coming out of Aegypt upon their deliverance there from and according to their choise to become a People to God according to it This Word Moses tells them was near them nearer then that which was spoken by God on the Mount and afterwards written in Tables of Stone The voyce of this Word and the Commandment thereof was nearer that they need not seek anywhere abroad for it but only listen at home to hear its speech obey it in the faith and live for ever Deut. 30. 11 c. This is the way for them and all Men to come into this Covenant and there is no other There is a Light shining in the Darkness of Mans heart which Springs up in him and casts forth it's rayes to discover and draw him out of the Darkness Now as this Light is felt loved understood in Spirit hearkned and cleaved to in the pure Faith which it begets that which cleaves to it is drawn out of the darkness by it into the Covenant of the pure eternal Light where God is and whither all they are translated who are drawn to him in and by this Covenant as they are kept preserved and continue in the Faith Love and Obedience of it Now I would yet put these few things more to them First Whether that People of the Jews as they stood related to God in that Covenant given by Moses at Mount Horeb with the Covenant it self and all things appertaining thereto were not a shadow of some inward and Spiritual thing afterwards to appear and be made manifest in its season Whether they themselves were not a shadow of a more inward and Spiritual People to be gathered to God by the inward and Spiritual Covenant and whether their outward Covenant was not a shadow or visible representation of that Covenant and the Laws of it a shadow or representation of the inward Laws which were to be written in the hearts of that Spiritual People Was not their Tabernacle or Temple a shadow of the true Tabernacle or Temple seeing God dwelleth not in Temples made with hands but in a poor humble contrite Spirit and in the Heart that trembles at his Word Isai. 57. 15. and chap. 66. 1 2. So was not their circumcision a shadow of the circumcision which is to pass upon the Hearts of God's chosen Were not their Sacrifices types or representations of the Sacrifices of praise and of a broken Heart Psal. 51. 17. and Psal. 50. 14. Was not their Canaan or Holy-land a type of the true Holy Spiritual rest which the faith gives entrance into Their City Jerusalem a Tipe of the Jehovah-shammah Their Priests and Levites Tipes of the

Spiritual Priesthood which was to offer the pure offering and Spiritual Sacrifices among the Gentiles Malac. 1. 11. Mark that place if it did not plainly foretel the casting off of the Jews with the rejecting of their Offerings Priests and Levites and God's raising up a seed among the Gentiles where he would have a more acceptable People and Worship even a pure Spiritual People and a pure Spiritual Offering Secondly If they were Types Representations or Shadows of somwhat Spiritual to come then were they not to give place to that which is Spiritual when it came and so to be swallowed up in it Is not the Spiritual Glory the Glory the inward Jew the Jew indeed the circumcision of the Heart the choice circumcision the offering up of praise and of a broken Heart the acceptable Sacrifice the Land of Life and Righteousness the true Land of rest to the living by Faith Is not the Spiritual City House or Temple which God builds the Ierusalem or Temple of the new Covenant Is not this the choice House to God and is not this Spiritual Glory to be expected in the days of the Messiah and all the Tipes and shadows of Moses which pointed at him to end in him when once he comes to set up his true inward invisible substantial Glory among his inward and Spiritual People When the day of Messiah dawns shall not Moses his shadows fly away O that your Eyes were opened to behold the inward Glory of Li●e the good things of the new Covenant the great Treasure and Riches which are revealed and possessed in the Spirit by the Spirits that are redeemed unto God that ye might partake thereof and then your Eye would not be so much on that which is outward which ifye had even to the utmost of your desires are not comparable to the inward Lastly Search the Prophets see if the Messiah is not first to come in a despiseable way as a man of sorrows Isai. 53. 2 3. whose visage in that appearance was to be more marred then any mans Isai. 52. 14. and consider whether he was not to be cut off though not for himself Dan. ● 26. and then to sit at the right Hand of God until his Enemies be made his Footstool Psa. 110. ●● Before he come in that Glory wherein 〈…〉 So that if he be not thus come already then that coming of his is yet to be expected and his Hands and Feet are yet to be pierced by you and then afterwards ye may look upon him whom you have pierced Zach. 12. 10. and all the Families of Israel mourn bitterly apart for it ver. 12. When Moses gave the Law the vail was over his face your Fathers were not able to bear the Light wherein the Law was given nor the Light wherein the Prophecies of the Prophets were given and so they still erred from the Law were offended at the Prophets while they were alive mis-understood their words after their death Now do not ye search into Moses and the Prophets in the same Spirit of error as your Fathers did being shut out from the Light of them even as they were If it be thus if the vail be over your hearts if ye be ignorant of the true Light of the true eternal Power wherein the Scriptures were given forth ye must needs mis-understand them mis-understand Moses mis-understand the Prophets mis-understand the things spoken concerning the Messiah so not be able to see unto the end of those things ministred by Moses of that ministration which was to pass away nor into the beginning of the ministration of the Messiah which was to succeed it O turn within to the Word nigh in the Heart that the true Jew may be begotten and formed in you and his Light may arise and overspread you that in that Light ye may see the Light of Moses and the Light of the Prophets and not gather false meanings from their words but understand them a right in the same Holy Spirit and injoy the blessedness they spake of and directed to which lyes in the inward raising up of an inward Seed and not in an outward conformity of the outward man while the heart and mind remains unchanged and unrenewed which can never be made new by any ministry of the Letter without the Spirit but alone by the ministry of the Spirit whether with or without the Letter as he pleaseth J. P. THE END